| Description |
xvii, 290 pages. : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages.271-286) and index. |
| Contents |
Introducing Messiaen the theologian / Andrew Shenton -- -- pt. I. Messiaen the theologian -- Religious literature in Messiaen's personal library / Yves Balmer -- Messiaen as preacher and evangelist in the context of European modernism / Peter Bannister -- Messiaen's saintly naïveté / Sander von Maas -- pt. II. Messiaen's relationship with theologians -- Olivier Messiaen and Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger : two views of the liturgical reform according to the Second Vatican Council / Karin Heller -- Messiaen's relationship to Jacques Maritain's musical circle and Neo-Thomism / Douglas Shadle -- Messiaen and Aquinas / Vincent P. Benitez -- pt. III. Messiaen, poets and theological themes -- Dante as guide to Messiaen's gothic spirituality / Robert Fallon -- Five quartets : the search for the still point of the turning world in the war quartets of T.S. Eliot and Olivier Messiaen / Andrew Shenton -- The charm of impossibilities : mystic surrealism as contemplative voluptuousness / Stephen Schloesser -- -- pt. IV Theology in Messiaen's music -- 'Une œuvre simple, solennelle...' : Messiaen's commission from André Malraux / Nigel Simeone -- Olivier Messiaen and the avant-garde poetics of the Messe de la Pentecôte / Robert Sholl -- Messiaen as explorer in Livre du Saint Sacrement / Luke Berryman -- Buddhist temple, Shinto Shrine and the invisible god of Sept Haïkaï / Cheong Wai Ling. |
| Subject |
Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Added Author |
Shenton, Andrew, 1962-
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| ISBN |
9780754666400 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0754666409 hardcover alkaline paper |
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